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SYLVANIA, Ohio - Laura Diaz still is waiting to put all of her game together. Watch out if she does.
Diaz was at 132, 10 under par, after the second round of the Jamie Farr Classic. She carded 4-under 67 Friday to lead Hee-Won Han by three strokes.
Thirteen-year-old sensation Michelle Wie had 72 and missed her first cut in five LPGA Tour events this year. She started showing the wear and tear of her long summer away from Honolulu.
"By this time, I just want to go home," she said. She still has to play in a Canadian Tour event next week in Brimley, Mich.
Diaz was pleased with her long game but not too happy with her putting. It was the opposite a day earlier when she opened with 65 on the 6,408-yard Highland Meadows Golf Club.
"Hopefully, the next two days I can get them both working," she said.
Diaz felt fortunate on two holes. She managed to birdie No.5 even after Michelle McGann's ball hit hers on the fairway, and she chipped in on No.3 to save par.
"It was a really nice surprise and put a nice smile on my face," Diaz said of the third hole.
Han, the hottest golfer on the tour in the past month, said she's been feeling less pressure since winning the Big Apple Classic last month for her first tour victory.
"I've got my confidence and it makes me play well," she said after 67.
Han also won Sunday at the Wendy's Championship. She birdied two of the first three holes Friday.
Wie's round came apart on No.17, a par 5 that's one of the longest holes on the course.
She drove her tee shot into the rough on the left side of the fairway and pushed her second shot across a cart path, sending spectators scrambling. It left her directly in the path of four trees.
She flicked the ball back onto the fairway and tossed her club aside in frustration. She ended up with a bogey that took away any chance of making the cut.
Her two-round score was 145, and missed it by two strokes.
Play was delayed for nearly 21/2 hours in the afternoon because of a thunderstorm, but by that time most of the leaders were in the clubhouse.
LONG ISLAND CLASSIC: Bruce Fleisher made four straight birdies on the front nine and eight overall as he shot a bogey-free, tournament-record 62 for the first-round lead in the Champions Tour event in East Meadow, N.Y.
Fleisher, who won the tournament in 1999 and 2000, held a two-shot lead over Bob Gilder, who also was bogey-free with 64.
Vicente Fernandez followed with 65, and Rodger Davis, Seiji Ebihara, John Bland, Des Smyth and Gary Koch each shot 66.
The event had been held at Meadow Brook Club in Jericho, N.Y., for the past 15 years before switching to the par-70, 6,797-yard Eisenhower Park Red Course, a public facility.
"I didn't know what to expect," said Fleisher, eighth in earnings with $924,777 in 20 events. "This is the first time I played here, but today was my day. I was flying right out of the box with that par 4 on the opening hole. Then I made four straight birdies and I said to myself, "How did I do that?"'
RUSSIAN OPEN: Australian Marcus Fraser took a one-stroke lead in the second round, breaking the course record with 65 that gave him 11-under-par 133 at the European PGA and Challenge Tours event in Nakhabino. Fraser shot five birdies in the back nine to edge ahead of Englishmen David Ryles and Jamie Elson and Austrian Martin Wiegele, who finished tied at 10 under.
SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP: The tournament will be held at Laurel Valley Golf Club in 2005. The club, near Pittsburgh, played host to the PGA Tour's Pennsylvania Classic in 2001. Laurel Valley, a private club, also was the site of the 1965 PGA Championship, the 1975 Ryder Cup and the 1989 U.S. Senior Open.